Posted on 11/06/2004 8:42:20 AM PST by 4kevin
The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks after the publishers gave in to last-minute pressure from some board members to define marriage as a "lifelong union" between a man and woman. The decision Friday, which involves two of the biggest textbook publishers, is an example of Texas exerting its clout as the nation's second-largest buyer of textbooks. Officials say the decision could affect hundreds of thousands of books in Texas alone. Board member Terri Leo, a Republican, said she was pleased with the publishers' changes. She led the effort to get the publishers to change the texts, objecting to what she called "asexual stealth phrases" such as "individuals who marry." Leo charged that the proposed new books for the state's middle schools and high schools ran counter to a Texas law banning the recognition of gay civil unions because the texts used terms like "married partners" instead of "husband and wife." "Marriage has been defined in Texas, so it should also be defined in our health textbooks that we use as marriage between a man and a woman," Leo said. After hearing the debate Thursday, one publisher, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, agreed to include a definition of marriage as a "lifelong union between a husband and a wife." The definition, which was added to middle school textbooks, already was in Holt's high school editions, Holt spokesman Rick Blake said.
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Praise The Lord!!!! Let's keep the pressure on!!!
Texas ROCKS ping!
I am proud of my state standing up for the institution of marriage and being brave enough to make the liberal book publishers back off their gay marriage agenda in our schools!
BIG TEXAS PING
Bump for proper education.
Texas: one.....Degenerates: 0
The other publisher, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, changed phrases such as "when two people marry" and "partners" to "when a man and a woman marry" and "husbands and wives."...
Randall Ellis, the executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, said the board overstepped its bounds in suggesting and adopting the new wording. "Their job is to review for factual information and instead what we see is the insertion of someone's ideology and agenda into the textbook of middle-schoolers," Ellis said.
Isn't it just too funny that it was their ideology and agenda was inserted in the first place yet they are whining about that? Now, they are just taking it out.
I read this in the paper this morning and about spit out my coffee when I read this:
The other publisher, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, changed phrases such as "when two people marry" and "partners" to "when a man and a woman marry" and "husbands and wives."...
Randall Ellis, the executive director of the Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby of Texas, said the board overstepped its bounds in suggesting and adopting the new wording. "Their job is to review for factual information and instead what we see is the insertion of someone's ideology and agenda into the textbook of middle-schoolers," Ellis said.
Isn't it just too funny that it was their ideology and agenda was inserted in the first place yet they are whining about that? Now, they are just taking it out.
What's great is that Texas is such a powerful influence on the textbook companies that they effectively end up defining what goes into many of the textbooks used nationwide.
Texas bump.
A liberal State Board of Education member from Corpus Christi thinks the state has no right to alter any textbooks used in its schools. I wonder if Mary Helen Berlanga would have said the same thing if it were liberals doing the editing.
YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Outstanding news!
posted yesterday......
HUA !!
I think I understand you, but wouldn't the word restore work a little better?
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